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ASN Morning Read: The Key to Youth Development

It's cool headphones, obviously. What if America's best athletes played soccer and had Beats by Dre and Apple headphones that they could wear at all times, even during games? World Cup winners.

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Noah Davis
Posted
July 18, 2016
8:45 AM

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U.S. Soccer development is... ¯\_(?)_/¯. Personally, I liked this bit from Mike Sorber: "Development is more art than science. In Germany they're not all playing in the street. German kids play video games, too. But you do have to have little pieces that keep feeding the fire. That can be a coach that gives you a piece of information, or being on a team where you play a lot and you get to explore things yourself and develop not just technical skills but the ability to solve problems, for your brain to pick up certain cues. That's complicated. You can't write that in a book. I think a big problem that we have is we're too focused on the individual, not focused on the team. And so this whole idea of technical ability and who's talented and who skillful, there are a lot of guys that are talented and skillful and have some soccer brains. But where we're coming up short lately is putting it together."